"In Search of Thoreau's Flowers," on view at the Gregg Museum through January, takes visitors on a walk around Walden Pond.

Students helped design Thoreau’s Backyard, a new playground in Concord featuring treehouses, rock walls and nature play areas ...

Henry David Thoreau’s river journals from the 19th century are now helping scientists understanding the effects of climate change on New England's seasons. Thoreau's meticulous notes on river ice, ...

October is the month for painted leaves,” wrote Henry David Thoreau in a wonderful essay called “Autumnal Tints” that a ...

(WDBJ) - Writer, philosopher, and naturalist Henry David Thoreau was born on this day in 1817. He embraced the Transcendentalist belief in the universality of creation and the primacy of personal ...

Text by Andrew Burmon Photograph by wereldmuis, via Flickr The Declaration of Independence endowed us with the right to ...

I’ve climbed the Bellows Pipe trail to the summit of Mount Greylock every July for 30 years. (Should have been 31, but I missed one year with a bout with bacterial meningitis.) I had hiked Bellows ...

Dylan N. Striek, a recent Hopkinton High School graduate who is now attending Dartmouth College, has been named a Thoreau Scholar, according to a community announcement. The scholarship, named for ...

Busy, busy, busy. Boy, can we be busy! We can be so active from the second our alarm goes off in the morning to the second we put our head down at night. By that time, we’re exhausted. We do so many ...

A half-an-hour drive from Boston, Massachusetts, in the town of Concord, sits one of the most revered literary landscapes in the world: the 2,680-acre Walden Woods and Walden Pond State Reservation.